Take a journey through the heartbeat of Pacific poetry. 

UPU is the official collection of words and photos from the award-winning theatre show created by Grace Iwashita Taylor, Fasitua Amosa and produced by Ana Corbett.

UPU has toured nationally in NZ and Canada as well as to Mexico and sold out their run at the Sydney Opera House. 

UPU Collective are so grateful to the poets who've granted us permission to publish their work.

No one is an Island - for Georgie (excerpt) 

Teresia Teaiwa 

A Samoan Star Chant for Matariki 

Selina Tusitala Marsh 

Pō 

Brandi Nalani McDougall 

Inside Us the Dead: Polynesians 

Albert Wendt 

How I got my name 

Briar Grace Smith 

Moko 

Ben Brown 

Warrior Wig and Boar Tusk Pendant

Darren Kamali 

On Cooking Captain Cook 

Brandy Nalani McDougall

 

Spam’s Carbon Footprint 

Craig Santos Perez 

This is a Photo of my House 

Tusiata Avia 

Inside Us the Dead: Missionaries 

Albert Wendt 

Vatu Invocation 

Grace Mera Molisa 

15 

John Pule 

For Makelesi Taulepa: Fefine mei Ofu 

Karlo Mila 

16 

John Pule

 

I am the Māori Jesus 

Ben Brown 

Natives Wanted 

Brandy Nalani McDougall 

Girl From Tuvalu 

Selina Tusitala Marsh 

Tell Them 

Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner 

Basket 

No’u Revilla 

Letter to the Colonel 

Koani Helu Thaman 

Two Nudes on a Tahitian Beach 

Selina Tusitala Marsh 

When a Pākeha tells a Māori joke 

Hone Tuwhare 

Daddy Said 

Tafea Polamalu 

Virgin Loi 

Karlo Mila

Tropical 

Lyz Soto 

Paradise Pasefika 

Leilani Tamu 

How do I dekolonize myself 

Darren Kamali 

Lapita Pot 

Apirana Taylor 

No one is an Island - for Georgie (excerpt) 

Teresia Teaiwa